Opacity

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

/opacity
/eulerlagrange

LOMLs, dawufi's been heating up for so long, man's about to dive into that water just to cool off

alok

When we needed him most, he returned! 🙏

From a while back, but check out this article I did on zkTLS..

From a while back, but check out this article I did on zkTLS.. https://paragraph.xyz/@vinny/opacity-network-deepdive

Ethereum

Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum.

Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become.

🧵👇

Honey, wake up the kids! A new Helios has dropped.

Good Bread by Greg

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

Apple

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while! The OG Apple Watch, also happy birthday my man.

coffee

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

I'll dare to say it... in all of Manhattan! (unless you still have the two-month old beans 🤣)

Music

Amateur math nerd. investing & research @EV3Ventures. Dislike lemon Starburst.

@eulerlagrange.eth wanted to let you know @ncitron.eth and I are recreating this shot for shot (he doesn’t know yet)

https://youtu.be/pgz6PnHkmpY?si=qXI7IvZpO6Gre-nV

Absolute banger. Enough said.

I’m excited to announce @a16zcrypto is leading the $9M Series A round in /daylightenergy! 🔆 Daylight is building a decentralized protocol to fund & coordinate distributed energy resources.

Daylight will initially sell distributed energy resource (DER) data to energy companies. It plans to enable anyone to build a virtual power plant, with access to info about DERs & the ability to control their deployment.

Imagine a home with solar panels, an electric vehicle battery, & a smart thermostat. Daylight lets the homeowner capture & sell data from those devices to energy companies to better manage the grid.

Co-founder & CEO @jasonbadeaux is a leading expert on decentralized network design for the physical world. Along with co-founders @powertrader and Udit Patel, they've built a crack team of energy grid operators, smart contract engineers, and domain experts.

We’re thrilled to help Daylight build a better & more decentralized energy grid! https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-daylight/

Huge news! Congrats to @jasonbadeaux and the entire Daylight team. A fantastic example of why we're excited about DePIN in distributed energy, and it's just the start. Excited to watch Daylight grow!

Why are people proposing switching the state to a starked binary merkle tree instead of a ternary merkle tree?

The total amount of hashed data should be proportional to log_a(n)*a where a is the arity of the tree. This function has a minimum at e, which is closer to 3 than 2.

This correlates to a ~5% savings in amount of hashed data by using ternary over binary.

old: double entry bookkeeping
new: client diversity

I'm excited to share Good Bread by Greg, a mini onchain bakery for onchain summer!

How it works:
- Order bread on Base (starts today)
- Pick up your brand and hang out in NYC (starts this weekend)

Let's get this bread 🍞 https://goodbread.nyc?ref=farcaster

I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with @greg and getting to try his banana bread. I wasn’t even hungry and ate four pieces. 

Do yourself a favor if you’re in nyc… go get some 🔥 bread and bring an extra pair of socks because that bread will knock yours off.

Checking the chains @witness - icebreaker.xyz/osprey.fc

Hi Joe. Been less than a day, miss you already :))